The Action Center in Windows 10 and 11 delivers various notifications from both system and user apps. Plus, it offers quick buttons for enabling or disabling many Windows features like Wi-Fi, mobile hotspot<\/a>, Bluetooth, and more. At times, its icon disappears from the tray, making it impossible to access the Action Center on Windows. This guide illustrates how to reinstall the Action Center when it won’t open.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Firstly, attempt to launch the Action Center with the Press Scroll down and check that the Action Center option is enabled in Then go to the notification settings (Settings -> System -> Notification and Actions: Here you can enable or disable the Action Center and select apps that are allowed to show notifications through the Action Center.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Try restarting the File Explorer process if the Action Center is enabled in Settings but you cannot open it. Kill the exporer.exe process using the Task Manager.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Or restart the process using PowerShell:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n taskkill \/f \/FI \"USERNAME eq $env:UserName\"\/im explorer.exe c:windowsexplorer.exe<\/p> <\/pre>\n<\/p>\n If this doesn\u2019t help, check whether you have a local policy that disables Action Center in Windows.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Action Center can also be deactivated via the registry. The DisableNotificationCenter<\/strong> value in the following registry keys is the one to check:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n If the value of the DisableNotificationCenter parameter is 1<\/strong>, the Action Center is disabled. However, it can be enabled again using the command:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In some instances, the inconsistencies with the Action Center might be due to mistakes in the Windows Store or the Settings app. Read this article <\/a> to learn how you can correct the Settings app in case it refuses to open. You can attempt to re-register all the MS Store apps by utilizing manifest files via the PowerShell one-liner:<\/p>\n This could also be solved by resetting the user environment configurations in the UsrClass.dat <\/strong> file. You can simply rename this file in the Win+A<\/code> command. If the Action Center panel pops up, you likely only need to activate the Action Center tray icon via Settings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nWin+I<\/code> and navigate to Personalization<\/strong> -> Taskbar<\/strong>. To quickly access these settings, use the URI command<\/a>: ms-settings:taskbar<\/code>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nTurn system icons on or off<\/code> section.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nms-settings:notifications<\/code> ).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>
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gpedit.msc<\/code>).<\/li>\nrsop.msc<\/code> or gpresult<\/a> command to get the resulting GPO settings on the computer and check that Action Center is not disabled by domain GPOs.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n\n
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsExplorer<\/code><\/li>\nHKLMSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWindowsExplorer<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nREG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsExplorer \/v DisableNotificationCenter \/t REG_DWORD \/d 0 \/f<\/code><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register \"$($_.InstallLocation)AppXManifest.xml\"} <\/code><\/p>\n %localappdata%MicrosoftWindows folder <\/code> and then log back into your Windows to recreate the file or use PowerShell:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n